Sweet, elemental, intelligent, mysterious, funny. Bruno S is unforgettable. You start wondering if everyone else is stupid. Both the scribe ('an excellent report!') and the foppish host look familiar.
After all, his answer to the logical problem is perfect.
There's a slight look of simple, scruffy cunning that Jack Nicholson might have borrowed.
The original title is better - "Every Man for Himself, and God Against them All" - having a cheerful ironic fatalism that's far more suitable.
Hopefully all you'd have to say to a fellow fan of the film would be 'escaping apples' for them to smile. Who says the Germans have no sense of humour?
It's now almost a week since I watched it, and it keeps on coming.
